Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff
Apple held its anticipated iPad event today, and the most attention-grabbing news wasn't the new device models or the refreshed iPad Air lineup - it was the unveiling of Apple's homegrown M4 chip with a surprisingly powerful neural processing unit .- has some heft. The 3nm-node processor has four performance and six efficiency CPU cores, all of which include ML accelerators.
The Neural Engine in the M4 raised a few eyebrows: According to Apple, the M4's NPU is capable of 38 trillion operations per second , presumably using INT8. If that peak figure is correct, it's faster than AMD's Ryzen 8040 series, with its 16 TOPS or Intel Meteor Lake,an NPU able to reach 11 TOPS. Intel Lunar Lake, which will have an NPU able to reach 45 TOPS, won't be out until the end of next year.
The refreshed iPad Pro with onboard M4 comes in two sizes - 13 and 11-inches - both of which sport a new"tandem OLED" display that Apple has dubbed Ultra Retina XDR. The M4 has an updated display engine to control the tandem OLED, which Apple said is brighter and sharper while also being thinner and lighter than traditional OLED screens.
The newest Pencil is physically similar to the existing second-generation stylus, but adds some new features like a squeeze sensor that can bring up an on-screen menu, a haptic feedback engine, and a gyroscope to enable angular modifications of tools.
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Hands-on with the new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro and iPad AirDaniel John is Senior News Editor at Creative Bloq. He reports on the worlds of art, design, branding and lifestyle tech (which often translates to tech made by Apple). He joined in 2020 after working in copywriting and digital marketing with brands including ITV, NBC, Channel 4 and more.
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